Cambridge Library CoLLeCtion Books of enduring scholarly value Travel and Exploration The history of travel writing dates back to the Bible, Caesar, the Vikings and the Crusaders, and its many themes include war, trade, science and recreation. Explorers from Columbus to Cook charted lands not previously visited by Western travellers, and were followed by merchants, missionaries, and colonists, who wrote accounts of their experiences. The development of steam power in the nineteenth century provided opportunities for increasing numbers of ‘ordinary’ people to travel further, more economically, and more safely, and resulted in great enthusiasm for travel writing among the reading public. Works included in this series range from first-hand descriptions of previously unrecorded places, to literary accounts of the strange habits of foreigners, to examples of the burgeoning numbers of guidebooks produced to satisfy the needs of a new kind of traveller - the tourist. Captivity of Hans Stade of Hesse in A.D. 1547- 1555, Among the Wild Tribes of Eastern Brazil The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. First published in English in 1874, this book contains Hans Stade’s autobiographical account of his capture by the indigenous Brazillian Tupinamba people in 1554, and his description of their customs. Stade was held prisoner for a year, and according to his sensational report he witnessed many acts of cannibalism and was offered roasted human flesh by the chief of a Tupinamba village. 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THE CAPTIVITY OF HANS STADE OF HESSE, IN A.D. 1547 1555, AMONG THE WILD TRIBES OF EASTERN BRAZIL. TRANSLATED BY ALBERT TOOTAL, ESQ., OF RIO DE JANEIRO, AND ANNOTATED BY RICHARD F. BURTON. 11 Floriferis ut apes in saltibus omnia liljant Omnia nos." LUCRETIUS. ' Da veiiifuu scriptis, quorum non gloria nobis (.'au-a, seel utilitas officiuniqiie fuit." OVID, Ejrist. LONDON: PKINTED FOR THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY. M.DCCC.LXXIV. COUNCIL THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY. THE RIGHT HON. SIB DAVID DUNDAS, PEESIDENT. REAE-ADMIBAL 0. R. DRINKWATER BETHUNE, O.B. MAJOE-GENEEAL SIB HENRY RAWLINSON, K.C.B., F.R.S., ^VICH-PBIJSIDEBTS. PEES.E.G.S. W. A. TYSSEN AMHURST, ESQ.. RET. DE. GEORGE P. BADGER, D.C.L., F.R.S. J. BARROW, ESQ., F.R.S. VICE-ADMIBAL R. OOLLINSON, O.B. CAPTAIN COLOMB, R.N. W. E. FRERE, ESQ. EGERTON V. HARCOURT, ESQ. JOHN WINTER JONES, ESQ., P.S.A. R. H. MAJOR, ESQ., P.S.A. SIE CHARLES NICHOLSON, BAET., D.C.L. SIE W. STIRLING MAXWELL, BAET. VICE-ADMIEAL ERASMUS OMMANNEY, O.B., P.R.S. 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